Enlight Fellowship Program 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 5, 2026 (Priority Deadline)

Applications are open for the Enlight Fellowship Program 2026. The Enlight Fellowship, supported by the Enlight Foundation and powered by the Watson Institute, is a totally-funded entrepreneurial and management growth program designed particularly for rising leaders creating options to psychological wellbeing globally.

The Fellowship fosters cross-cultural collaboration and world influence via professional-led coaching, facilitators, audio system, and mentors, customized life teaching, and lengthy-time period Alumni help. Fellows achieve the instruments, insights, and world networks wanted to scale their influence and drive significant change of their communities. The Fellowship kicks off with per week-lengthy Immersive expertise the place Fellows collaborate intently with friends, construct lasting connections, and lay the inspiration for his or her progress.

Benefits

• Business & Leadership Workshops: Participate in arms-on classes targeted on entrepreneurship, enterprise acumen, and monetary literacy abilities led by professional practitioners who’re profitable entrepreneurs and or rising chief themselves.
• Financial Tools & Resources: Access sensible monetary instruments, frameworks, and workshops designed to strengthen your enterprise’s monetary basis. Benefit from the experience of practitioners and Watson Institute’s broader community of specialists supporting entrepreneurs at each stage.
• Basecamps: Creating Lasting Impact: Design and lead a group-targeted 1-day workshop (Basecamp) for earlier-stage enterprise, with coaching and a stipend offered to help you in deepening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in your group.
• Pitch Training & in-individual Summit: Develop and refine an expert, compelling pitch via devoted coaching classes. Present your enterprise progress and influence on the in-individual Summit to group companions, mentors, potential buyers, and Enlight Foundation staff members.

Eligibility

• You are a youth entrepreneur or group chief deeply dedicated to bettering psychological wellbeing. You are constructing an answer that addresses psychological wellbeing challenges in your group, with a powerful concentrate on creating significant, scalable influence in China and throughout a worldwide cohort. You carry an entrepreneurial spirit, a progress mindset, and a need to develop as an efficient chief.
• Your enterprise or group has been working for 1-5 years with fewer than 10 staff. You have engaged prospects, measurable outcomes, and have secured some funding via grants, investments, donations, or income, however you’re able to develop to the subsequent degree.
• You should be capable of totally decide to the 16-week Fellowship, together with the obligatory week-lengthy In-person Immersive in Boulder, Colorado or Qingshan Village, Hangzhou, China, in addition to energetic participation all through this system. You can attend all weekly digital workshops held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Fellows will take part in one in all two teams, every with a delegated begin time: from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT or 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MT. They prioritize members who’re totally dedicated to energetic engagement all through the complete program. The program’s success depends upon constructing a powerful group the place all members are passionate about each studying and sharing their experiences with others.
• Fellows could also be based mostly anyplace on the earth. The cohort will embrace youth leaders targeted on bettering psychological wellbeing in China in addition to these addressing youth psychological wellbeing challenges globally.
• You are in search of professional-led entrepreneurial coaching, mentorship from facilitators and audio system with deep psychological wellbeing experience, a supportive peer group, and a powerful community that will help you develop as a pacesetter and scale your enterprise’s influence.
• Applicants have to be 18 years or older.

Application

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For extra info, go to Enlight Fellowship.